Quell in a Sentence

Examples of quell in a sentence

Quell is a pretty challenging word, but we're here to help you better understand it...with EXAMPLES!

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Below you will find the definition of quell, followed by 39 sample sentences (from real sources), gradually increasing in length.

I have to laugh when Democrats tell their Republican counterparts to tell these right wing upstarts that they need "adult supervision" in order to quell this behavior. (source)

This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks, especially at a time when lethal microbes are frequent fliers. (source)

Thus, as we have noted, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a practicing Mormon, had to quell concerns about his religion during his presidential bid in 2008. (source)

Kazakhstan's government is arresting critics at an unprecedented pace in a bid to quell dissent over recent parliamentary elections and a crackdown on an oil-worker strike. (source)

Some critics of the federal government plans involving local police agencies and churches cite FEMA's attempt to "quell" dissent and facilitate the confiscation of guns from private citizens. (source)

The only way to "quell" al Queda and other terrorist organisations is to send black ops to destroy the terrorist cells and so called "madrasas" that are teaching twisted definitions of shahid and jihad. (source)

However, he also suggested that enacting it would not quell conservative criticism, arguing that it would be even better to hold suspects like Mr. Shahzad as military detainees for lengthier interrogation. (source)

Demonstrators led by students demanding cheaper and better state education blocked roads and lit fires as police used water cannons and tear gas to quell the latest outcry against the conservative billionaire. (source)

The world's leading central banks joined forces to offer Europe's beleaguered banks easy access to dollars, acting to quell fears that the region's lenders could fall victim to the euro-zone's government debt crisis. (source)

Libya's rebels disbanded the group's de facto cabinet soon after Mr Younis's death, but with the exception of a few isolated incidents, the leadership managed to quell anger and maintain order within the ranks until now. (source)

For instance, virtually all teams, even at the very highest level, will, when the opponents are attacking and one of the defenders can get his foot on the ball, will simply whack it, hard, up the field to quell the danger. (source)

Still, she could face some tough questions over whether the San Francisco Fed acted aggressively enough to quell reckless banking on the West Coast, where a large number of financial institutions have failed in the last two years. (source)

Senator BEN NELSON (Democrat, Nebraska): Based on my conversations with her and reading of her remarks, I can't quell those concerns back home, nor can I quell my own concern about where she may be in terms of the Second Amendment. (source)

Sectarian violence in this central region of Nigeria has left thousands dead over the past decade, and the latest outbreak that began Sunday came despite the government's efforts to quell religious extremism in the West African country. (source)

In another move designed to quell anti-Japanese sentiment, Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, last week expressed "deep remorse" for his country's 35-year occupation of Korea, a gesture welcomed by his counterpart, Lee Myung-bak, as "a step forward". (source)

This healthy approach involves acceptance of our genetic body structure, willingness to feed our bodies enough foods to quell hunger, sustain energy and the practice of speaking to ourselves without judgment and blame for "who we are not," and "what we do not look like." (source)

But recently we've heard very different messages from some police and politicians in the United Kingdom and from officials at the Bay Area Rapid Transit District BART in San Francisco, whichactuallycut off cell phone service at fourundergroundstations to quell a planned protest. (source)

European Central Bank executive board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi said at a conference in New York on Monday that euro-zone policy makers are already looking at ways to increase the capabilities of the European Financial Stability Facility, to quell market fears of contagion within the bloc. (source)

Sentence Information

The average Flesch reading-ease score of the 39 example sentences provided below is 46.0, which suggests that "quell" is a difficult word that tends to be used by individuals of higher education, and is likely found in more advanced literature or in academia.

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